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Anne Marie Mills

Re-engineering Her Career

Mills Makes Her Move into HR

Anne Marie Mills had a very simple reason for pursuing an MBA. “I was an engineer in my past life and I did not like it,” she confesses.

So the Seattle native began her “new” life by taking three months to travel in Australia and New Zealand, then joining Owen’s MBA class of 2013. Here, she has immersed herself in strategic human resources, her chosen area of concentration.

She likes the new challenge, but also the way that Owen is oriented toward helping students achieve their goals. “It’s hard not to learn while you are at Owen,” says Anne Marie, a proud Purdue Boilermaker. “You will be pushed to your edge, but you will succeed.”

In fact, she already succeeded in landing a summer internship with LinkedIn. It’s “the perfect HR company to work for,” she says. “I get to play with the biggest HR tool out there.”

She’s also enjoying the “human resources” at Vanderbilt — in the persons of the tight-knit group of friends with whom she enjoys eating out, attending concerts (and studying).

It’s quite a change of pace from Anne Marie’s former life. Not too long ago, she was working with “a lot of older, white-haired guys,” she says. “They didn’t like listening to me at all.”